Archery Hunting Photos

[Joe15]

what a tank ha...congrats

[Rippinlip]

Great deer everyone, hope to be posting here soon with either my wifes or mine or if we are lucky enough maybe both.

[st.crioxfishin]

Some awesome bucks on here everyone! Here is one that I took on public land this morning down in Iowa where I go to school. Not the biggest rack, but I couldn't pass on the droptine!

[Lunker]

Wow, that is a lengthy drop-tine. Nice deer everybody.

Here is my first bow deer, a doe taken in Itasca county in late October. Shot at 30-35 yards over an alfalfa field at last light. She jumped the string a bit and I hit her high in the back, but bled out very quickly and within 100 yards.

No trophy, but will hit the pan just right.

[DonBo]

StCroix, great droptine! Looks like a beast of a deer. You get a weight on that bad boy?

Lunker, congrats on your first bow kill! What a rush huh?

Lot's of great deer here...congrats to all.

[Joe15]

St.croix is that a mission eliminator? Very nice deer by the way...huge drop!

[st.crioxfishin]

DonBo: it was a big bodied deer, we didn't get an official weight on it, but I do know that me and my buddy had to take several "breathers" while only dragging it about 70 yds!

Joe15: Yes, thats a mission eliminator. I just got it this fall and couldn't be more happy with it.

[Deitz Dittrich]

love the droptine bob... thats awesome!!! Congrats dude!

[sticknstring]

Way to go fellas. That's an impressive drop - longest tine.

[bigbucks]

Congrats on the first bow deer.

Congrats on the beast with the long drop tine. If I ever see a drop tine & I have a shot it's going down, I don't care how big it is.

[Steve Foss]

Drop tines are just cool, IMO. I drool over monster racks like anyone else, though I am basically a meat hunter, but those drop tines add a lot of character to a rack.

Good job on the hunting and the pics, folks!

[bigbucks]

Ever think it's just your year? We were rifle hunting last Friday as a party & one person shot at a deer. Of all the people to get a big one it came by me, after I'd already shot a big one the previous Friday with my bow. Nobody really minded giving up their tag for this one though. Not a monster, but too nice for me to pass up. It would have been my biggest ever, except for last week, though it's a totally different type of rack. This has a full 18" spread. A main frame 9 with about a 1" sticker on the brow tine of his 5 side. Decided to put him on the wall too, kind of an expensive year, but who's complaining...

This is the kill site photo:

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-...7_8260618_n.jpg

This is where we were going to load him up:

http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-...5_1303020_n.jpg

Hope this is okay, gives a better view of his width:

http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-...8_6860249_n.jpg

Don't know what he weighed, we were guessing in the 180-190 range. A big deer for sure, but not gigantic.

[lovebigbluegills]

Very nice deer BB....nice rack, and the body looks huge.

[bigbucks]

Thanks, here's a couple of better pics of my first buck for comparison:

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-...9_3720973_n.jpg

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-...3_7920939_n.jpg

Anybody got a good idea of what my bucks will score. This one has 4 tines all about 10", with a 16" spread & a lot of mass.

The other buck doesn't have as much mass, his tines are 6-7"s, but he's 18" wide.

The bodies of the two deer were very similar.

[DonBo]

Yes, you are on a roll! Enjoy it while you can, not every year is gonna be like this one.

Congrats!

[sticknstring]

Two great bucks right there - a great year!

I'd say 125" on the first one and mid 140's on the 2nd. I'd be darn happy with either one right now.

[Bear55]

I'll give you 130 and 145 DD - great bucks and congrats on the great season. I'm hoping to have one of those myself one of these years.

[bigbucks]

The taxidermist gross scored the bow buck (the one in my avatar) at 152. The rifle buck he didn't actually score, but he said somewhere in the 140's.

[Bear55]

Nice! Sometimes you just have to see the rack in person to see how big they are.

[winniewalleye777]

I shot this buck saturday morning. It was my 2nd (and biggest) buck with a bow.

http://i782.photobucket.com/albums/yy104/toadman0586/bowhunting2009025.jpg

http://i782.photobucket.com/albums/yy104/toadman0586/bowhunting2009033.jpg

http://i782.photobucket.com/albums/yy104/toadman0586/bowhunting2009021.jpg

[sticknstring]

That's a nice buck ww. Congratulations.

[Deitz Dittrich]

Nice one WW.. Congrats!

[mrklean]

nice looking deer guys

[paceman]

Nice Bucks Guys...

[bigbucks]

Nice deer, very symetrical, Congrats.